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copied!<p>In Python there are many ways of making objects behave slightly differently, like metaclasses and whatnot, and it can override <strong>getattr</strong> and thereby have "magical" attributes you can't see through <strong>dict</strong>, etc. In short, it's unlikely that you are going to get a 100% complete picture in the generic case with whatever method you use.</p> <p>Therefore, the answer is: If it works for you in the use case you have now, then the code is correct. ;-)</p> <p>To make somewhat more generic code you could do something like this:</p> <pre><code>import types def todict(obj): # Functions, methods and None have no further info of interest. if obj is None or isinstance(subobj, (types.FunctionType, types.MethodType)) return obj try: # If it's an iterable, return all the contents return [todict(x) for x in iter(obj)] except TypeError: pass try: # If it's a dictionary, recurse over it: result = {} for key in obj: result[key] = todict(obj) return result except TypeError: pass # It's neither a list nor a dict, so it's a normal object. # Get everything from dir and __dict__. That should be most things we can get hold of. attrs = set(dir(obj)) try: attrs.update(obj.__dict__.keys()) except AttributeError: pass result = {} for attr in attrs: result[attr] = todict(getattr(obj, attr, None)) return result </code></pre> <p>Something like that. That code is untested, though. This still doesn't cover the case when you override <strong>getattr</strong>, and I'm sure there are many more cases that it doens't cover and may not be coverable. :)</p>

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